OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Facing Ambiguity: What We Do in the Space Between Stimulus and Response	108
Historical Psychology	95
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	77
Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI	51
Music, Memory, and Imagination	44
Positive Affect Dynamics	44
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	43
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	42
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	42
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	41
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	40
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	37
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	37
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	36
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	35
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	35
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	35
Crossing Boundaries: A Culture-First Approach to Studying Early Learning	33
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	31
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	30
Motivated Egalitarianism	30
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	29
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	28
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	28
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	28

Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence	25
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	25
Parenting by Lying	24
The New Psychology of Secrecy	24
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	23
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	23
Beyond WEIRD Humans and STRANGE Dogs: Using Big-Team Science to Improve Generalizability and Reproducibility in Comparative Psychology	23
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	23
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	22
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	22
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	22
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	20
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	20
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	18
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	17
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	17
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	17
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	17
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	17
Ecospirituality	16
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	16
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	16
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	15